Retro style meets 21st century performance. Engineered and hand-assembled in England, this commercial-quality toaster handles everything from bagels to brioche with ease. Patented, award-winning ProHeat elements increase toasting efficiency and ensure even browning every time. Extra-wide 1" slots accommodate a variety of breads, and a high lift mechanism lets you easily retrieve small items.

User-friendly, manually operated functions enable you to prepare toast just the way you like it. Simply select 2- or 4-slice toasting and fine-tune browning time with the adjustable 4-minute timer. Manual ejector lever allows you to check your toast as often as you like and keeps it warm inside the toaster until you’re ready to enjoy.

FOUR EXTRA-WIDE SLOTSGenerous 1" slots accommodate a variety of breads.

MANUAL EJECTOR LEVERAllows you to check your toast as often as you like and keeps it warm inside the toaster until you’re ready to enjoy.

HIGH-LIFT MECHANISMMakes it easy to retrieve smaller toasted items.

USER-FRIENDLY CONTROLSManually operated functions enable you to prepare toast just the way you like it. Simply select 2- or 4-slice toasting and fine-tune browning time with the adjustable 4-minute timer.

In 1945 Max Gort-Barten, a German-born entrepreneur who had joined the British army during WWII, bought a small factory in Camberwell with the vision of using his engineering skills and creativity to manufacture products. He had several early innovations, including the Dual-Light electric fire from which Dualit took its name, but it was a patented toaster that caught people’s attention.

An astute businessman, Max decided not to compete head to head with other emerging consumer brands but instead focused on the commercial market. In 1952, he designed and engineered a six-slice toaster with a built-in timer (the first of its kind). Over the next 20 years, the company grew slowly, gradually improving and extending its range of commercial toasters and adding other related products.

Everything started to change in the ‘70s when Max’s son Leslie joined the business. A government-sponsored design grant gave Dualit the opportunity to employ a Royal College of Art design graduate. Export incentives prompted Leslie and Max to exhibit at foreign trade shows. And consumer demand for professional kitchen appliances led retailers to stock Dualit products.

When the Dualit toaster became the must-have kitchen appliance of the ‘80s, the company was swamped by an insatiable demand. It was forced to extend the factory twice over and find ways of increasing its manufacturing capacity.

Today Dualit, run by Max’s son Leslie, produces a range of kitchen and home appliances that remain firmly rooted in the values Max established for the company. Reliable, well-engineered products remain at the heart of the company, and there is an instantly recognizable—and now nostalgically retro—Dualit aesthetic that can be traced back to Max’s first toaster designs in the 1950s.

One constant—an ability to embrace change—has seen the company revolutionize its manufacturing capability without compromising on quality and reliability. The innovative, entrepreneurial spirit that was so much a part of Max is echoed in Leslie and his son Alex as they develop products for 21st-century consumers.